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A town in Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, home to 1,768 people.
Households here earn well: 0.6 jobs per working resident; 8.1% unemployment. Its weakest subject is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 10.7 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Residents’ health trails most towns (C−). The median sale price is €3,929/m².
Figures: employment, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Puyloubier has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Puyloubier with other French towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far its rank is from the middle. American and UK towns are graded separately.
Puyloubier has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The one thing Puyloubier does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Puyloubier as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Tombeau romain dit Trophée de Marius, in Pourrières, 3.5 mi away.
13% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Puyloubier is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Puyloubier.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The estimated advertised rent is €15.40/m² a month, close to Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (€15.81/m²) and above compared French towns (€12.41/m²). Renting a house costs an estimated €10.09/m² a month. Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 31 homes in Puyloubier.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Adjusted for age and care homes, Puyloubier records 100 deaths per 100 expected, higher than both Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (88) and compared French towns (88). France’s death rates at each age would predict 202 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 320, 58% more. The nearest emergency department to Puyloubier is Chi site D Aix En Provence, 11.7 mi away. In Bouches-du-Rhône, women can expect to live 86 years and men 81 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France.
Source: INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025; DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 · Licence Ouverte · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists.
Unemployment stood at 8.1%, lower than both Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (9.4%) and compared French towns (10.1%). Public transport took 5.4% of Puyloubier’s working residents to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Children under 15 make up 15%, lower than both Bouches-du-Rhône’s towns (17%) and compared French towns (17%). Line up the people of Puyloubier by age and the one in the middle is 47.8. People aged 15 to 24 make up just over a tenth of the town.
50% women, 50% men
About an even split. Median share of women: Bouches-du-Rhône 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Puyloubier | Bouches-du-Rhône median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 11% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 21% | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 31% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 23% | 22% | 22% |
| No diploma | 12% | 18% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 22% | 22% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 19% | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 43% | 36% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Bouches-du-Rhône median and France median: the median of compared communes
Recorded offenses in Puyloubier came to 21 in 2025. Violence against people ran at 7 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 12.2 (2023–2025 average). Among the graded crimes locally, the most frequent was criminal damage (2025).
Not in the gradeTheft without violence, drug use and fraud are shown for information but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence plus burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and criminal damage per resident.
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · When family violence, other physical violence, sexual violence, armed robbery and vehicle theft number five or fewer in a recent year, the figure is withheld, and the index uses the département’s average instead (62.7% of the index here). The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Heritage, museums and other places to visit in and near Puyloubier. Best known first.
3 notable people were born in Puyloubier.
Commune in Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Puyloubier is a commune of 1,768 people in the Métropole d'Aix-Marseille-Provence. TownRatings compares communes, France’s local unit: each has its own mayor and its own statistics. Its area takes in the town and the countryside around it.
Built from INSEE’s 2026 official geography (COG) and IGN Admin Express boundaries
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puyloubier | 1,768 | — | — | D− | — | C− |
| Pourrières Var | 5,642 | 3.6 | — | D | — | B |
| Rousset | 5,425 | 3.8 | C+ | D− | D | B |
| Trets | 10,946 | 5.4 | C | D | B+ | C+ |
| Peynier | 3,739 | 5.4 | — | D− | — | B+ |
| Fuveau | 10,337 | 7.4 | B | D− | B+ | A |
| Rians Var | 4,223 | 7.6 | C− | C | A− | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Puyloubier has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 6 burglaries and 8 acts of criminal damage.
Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Puyloubier grades D− for cost of living.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · DGFiP, DVF property sales, July 2023 to June 2026 · Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025 · SSMSI, recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Ministry of Education (DEPP), brevet and bac results and value-added indicators, 2025 · INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses 2012–2023; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025 (care homes, emergency and maternity units, GPs, pharmacies); DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 (provisional) · INSEE, BPE 2025 and Filosofi 200 m grid (walking distances) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.